WHY DO LIBERALS HATE CONSERVATIVES

There are so people in
the liberal camp that are blinding by their own prejudices that they can’t see
any view but their own and refuse to be taught otherwise.

Cook mentions a Facebook
exchange:

“Republicans hate anything
that isn’t white, wealthy, and Christian at least in appearance. They hate the
poor, women, and minorities. They hate science and don’t believe that the
global warming we clearly are experiencing is man-made.

“They hate any government programs
that help the poor and minorities, and the particularly despise immigrants,
particularly the illegal kind. They love programs that line the pockets of oil
companies, mining companies, and are willing to export jobs with wild abandon.

“They hate public education,
and they despise public schools and the public school teachers and public
university professors. And since they do not respect the market place of ideas,
they hate tenure (that gives teachers academic freedom) because it prevents
them from firing teachers who are Democrats and who might infect some student
with their liberal ideas.

“They want insurance
companies to make a maximum of profit, and are perfectly willing for the health
insurance companies to kill people by refusing service to anyone that might
cost them a buck more than the median expense. They don’t care about clean food
because it might cost the food corporation a little money, and they don’t care
about clean water because cleaning up the waste will cost their precious
corporate persons a little money.”

Any conservative reading the
above characterization would be fuming after reading it. I would love to answer
each of the charges, but it would take a book to do so. In fact, books have
been written debunking these caricatures of conservatives, but the false
narrative continues.

Let me quickly give a series
of snapshot responses:

Conservatives hate it when
liberals use the poor, women, and minorities as political pawns to further the
expansion of the State and make them dependent on government.

Conservatives don hate
government programs that claim to help the poor and minorities but in reality
hurt the power long-term.

Conservatives love immigrants
because most of us are descendants of immigrants who followed the rules and
came here legally.

Conservatives oppose illegal
immigration because they understand that many liberals want to use it to grow
the already bankrupt welfare State to empower the Democrat Party.

True conservatives despise
corporate welfare or what is often called “crony capitalism,” although it has
nothing to do with capitalism

Oil company profits are paid
out to millions of stock holders, many of who are liberals.

Companies would not “export
jobs” if the corporate tax rate and excessive regulations weren’t debilitating,
thus, making it difficult for American companies to compete with foreign
companies.

Conservatives who choose to
send their children to public schools do not “hate public education” or
“despise public schools and the public school teachers.” They hate and despise
much of what is taught in these schools and what is not taught.

Conservatives do respect the
“market place of ideas.” That’s why they are often critical of university
professors who use tenure as a way often to exclude academic competition by a
rehearsal of alternative positions and facts.

Insurance companies are
generally despised. But we should remember that insurance companies are tightly
regulated by government. Our government has often curtailed interstate
competition among insurance companies.

It’s absurd that
Conservatives “don’t care about clean food” or “clean water because cleaning up
the waste will cost their precious corporate persons a little money.”